7/6/2025 Presider Announcements

*WELCOME to HOSANNA! – *Warmest welcome to all of you, especially if you are visiting or re-visiting! Please let our Welcoming Team give you our welcoming gift! Fill-out a yellow newcomer’s contact card so that we can keep in touch! We welcome you into this family of Christ’s loving arms and remain here for you as His body to grow and flourish together!
 
*DISMISSAL of children (kinder to 5th grade) to Children’s Ministry and Youth Group to Bible study + Lunch! – At this time, children from kindergarten to 5th grade can head over to Minister Sewon Cho’s children’s ministry – please proceed to the children’s chapel down the hallway to the left! And youth group can head to your Bible study and lunch hour with Rev. Sooyoung Song. *Preschool worship children should already be in the preschool worship room with Director Rachel, and will continue to begin simultaneously at 10:30am in the preschool worship room.
 
*THANK YOU FOR ALL THE PRAYING & FASTING FOR THE HONDURAS MISSION! – The team safely returned on Friday evening. Thank you to all those who sent written-prayers! They will be given to the Honduras team leader, Rev. Isaiah Lee, this week.
 
*HOSANNA INTERCESSORY PRAYER (HIP) TEAM! – Do you have a passion for prayer, collecting confidential and public prayer requests, and interceding prayerfully for one another and the mission of Hosanna Church? We are excited to create our first-ever HIP (Hosanna Intercessory Prayer) team – a group of prayer warriors who collect & organize prayer requests, are a constant stream of prayer before Father God, and meet occasionally to pray for the church. See Elder Patrick to join this vital ministry of Hosanna!
 
*THANK YOU TO OUR SEASONAL WORSHIP & PRAISE TEAM SERVANTS! – Special thank you to sisters Hannah Kim and Hannah Lee for serving our worship & praise team throughout July! Pray and support their time of studies at San Marcos and Austin! *If interested in serving the sacrificial and dedicated weekly servants of the worship & praise team, connect with our Worship Minister Samantha Chao!
 
*STARTING TODAY UNTIL JULY 26th – NOMINATIONS BEGIN FOR NEXT 2025-’26 CLASS OF ORDAINED OFFICERS (future Elders & Deacons) – NOMINATE THROUGH WEBPAGE LINKS! – We ask all sincere and maturing followers of Jesus Christ to consider praying about stepping into the ordained office of Deacon and Elder (click the links for detailed information on definition, roles & responsibilities). All nominated names will be collected, prayed over, and assessed by the current Session for candidacy. *The last day to nominate yourself or someone else to ordained office will be Saturday, July 26, 2025.
 
*TODAY (7/6) –

• 12pm BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUPS & LUNCH MENU – *Let’s make intentional effort to participate in our breakout discussion groups! *Your group# is on the bottom of your note page in the bulletin.
• DESSERT MINISTRY – Hosanna serves desserts monthly on the 1st Sunday of the month to the entire Hosanna-Bethany family. Help us be a channel of blessing!

 
*UPCOMING NEXT WEEK –

• SATURDAY-SUNDAY (7/12-13) KITCHEN MINISTRY – Saturday 9:30am food prep ministry. Sunday 12:40pm dishwashing ministry. Volunteer with Elder Heather.
• SATURDAY (7/12) AGAPE SOCIAL/FELLOWSHIP – time & event TBA by shepherds Jonathan & Nara.

 
*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on the 2025-’26 Hosanna Ordained Spiritual Leadership
 
Scripture:
 
Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. (1 TIMOTHY 4:14)
 
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. (1 TIMOTHY 3:1-3)
 
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. (1 PETER 5:1-4)
 
 
Prayer (by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, we lift up to You the new class of 2025-’26 Hosanna ordained spiritual officers of your beloved Church. As we begin the nominations and prayer period today, guide us into Your heart, Your choice, and Your calling for ourselves and those you want to encourage to step up in spiritual maturity to serve, rather than to be served, just like the Son of Man and Son of God came to do as a ransom for many. Father, You created our highest pleasure to be humble servants of our Creator instead of addicted servant-slaves to creation. May the role of servanthood in Deaconship, and shepherdship in Eldership, be the natural progression of a maturing walk with Your Son, as we learn to shine His image brighter and more faithfully into a dark and depraved Church and world. Let us not neglect the gift you have given us by those who have prayed for us and laid their prayerful hands on us. Let us aspire to the noble office of Deacon and Elder to grow our godly Christlikeness, manifesting before others the true character of Christ. Grow followers into servants, and servants into commissioned officers who suffer well with Christ in overseeing His flock, so that we might partake in His glory to be revealed, until our Chief Elder, Chief Deacon and Shepherd appears with our crown of glory, Jesus Christ, Amen & amen!